Phone Hacking, Stolen Info: New Washington Post Publisher’s Ties to Murdoch Papers Raise Alarm
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We look at the unfolding ethics scandal at The Washington Post that has rocked one of the nation’s leading news outlets and raised questions about its future. The controversy centers on CEO and publisher Will Lewis, who has reportedly pressured journalists inside and outside the newsroom not to run unflattering stories about him. His efforts to reshape the newsroom in the face of steep financial losses have also alarmed staff, and British editor Robert Winnett, Lewis’s pick for a top editorial role, withdrew amid concern over his history of using fraudulently obtained information in newspaper articles. Lewis is also implicated in the long-running U.K. phone hacking scandal. Both Lewis and Winnett are veterans of conservative British papers owned by Rupert Murdoch, and The Guardian recently revealed that Lewis advised then-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on how to cover his tracks amid public outrage over violations of COVID precautions at the height of the pandemic. “At the most basic level of how journalism should operate, executives in charge of news in the public interest should not be suppressing news. It’s a pretty simple bar, and Will Lewis has failed to clear it,” says Chris Lehmann, D.C. bureau chief for The Nation.
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Yet another example of who are leading our main media outlets these days … shame shame shame
@cassandratq9301
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Unaccountable billionaire owners.
@kushking949
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why did you say shame 3 times? You think if I say karen 9 times you would understand?
The top one percent has way too much power. Again the best sources of information are being dumbed down to the lowest common standard.
If Steven Spielberg decides to make a sequel to The Post. It should be about this
Amy and democracy now are doing a great job and please keep it up by diclosing the truth and exposing the crooks and the wrongdoings by the criminals in our society. Thank you so much.
It’s the Washington COMPOST. There i fixed it for you.
@joelewishenry7886
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The Washington DESPOT
I'm from the era before Reagan. It definitely wasn't perfect but there were Laws about how much influence one media owner could have. Owning too much media is not only control over what we believe, it is revenue going to just a few people. Reagan's changes were deliberate but information belongs to us all. Monopolies need to ne dissolved, in News and in economic/business centers. The people must demand Rights in this world before Human Rights disappear for generations to come.
@UKindness4
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Arkansas Clinton continued with Reagan's destruction of our media and banking for the rich... Maybe the fact that Hillary worked as a young woman for the most far right Republican Barry Goldwater should have pId attention to her real agenda. In 1996 Telecommunications Act now, allowed one Company to own one areas media: TV, newspapers and radio. Far right Sinclair Broadcasting started buying whole towns and countys. I guess destroying Glass Steagall the FDR bankers Ng protection laws for our people wS not enough. So today we got Hillary the wRmonger still in the under the democrats umbrella for Gaza Genocide going after real democrats against genocide and not taking AIPAC dual passports Bloomberg, Adelson, Schwarzman and Black Rock Fink's money. America is corupt and kawl SS uncaring about its people's life ves because of both parties corruption of our media.
@edwardbernthal160
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well said
@Jazmine585
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Reagan paved the way for fake news by getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine. How do you think Fox News was created and why? Reagan laid the foundation for all the things you see going wrong in this country such as union busting and the destruction of the middle class with his trickle down economics BS. Hey let's not forget how his CIA allowed drugs into this country and then blamed the minorities - Just Say No but now it's an opioid epidemic, an illness. Okay....
From long time this abuse of human right happens and all about Money 💰
What is a society to do when its business and political leaders succumb to self-interest and all of its diabolica entrapments?
@robertrichard6107
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King Trump will turn the Post over to the People.
Tax all income and wealth above 1,000x the minimum wage at 100%.
@napalmholocaust9093
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Not income. Wealth and Assets.
The post RAG
I’m not surprised and no one else should be either.
Damn, now Rupert and Lachlan will be making offers to him. He would fit right in at FOX!
The Washington Despot.
Is it true that Bradley was CIA?
Great interview.
Good Morning Vietnam 2: The Gov Agenda
That makes sense
You know you’re doing something horribly unethical when Jeff bezos defends you.
Why filee
It's crazy print media is dying.
Why do i keep seeing revealing images of women as avatars saying random sh*t? What kinda op is this? Lol, I dont get it, where did it come from? WhO's DoInG tHiS?? Lol
@cassandratq9301
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Porn bots.
@ArleeStarr
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@@cassandratq9301 They cannot be reported either. Even though it's counter to "community" rules. But, try to post the truth on any YT threads, they are removed or shadow banned.
I quite liked the clip... I quite like the show its from.... The comment section here... is however... utterly baffling.
Why are the mainstream news media including NPR, PBS, and DN in the tank for the Democratic Party?
@samstewart9249
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Might be because Republicans always defund them, wouldn't you say?
Jeff bazos do you need anything else to say im getting 700 to 800 claiming to mostly amazon visa ordeŕs and money transfeŕ from bozo goof
Lol
Propaganda NOW Propaganda NOW